Bay City teen accused by police of shooting mom, grandmother

Published 8:00 pm, Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Bay City Police are investigating the shooting of a 64-year-old woman at a Fremont Street home by her grandson, 15.

Police were sent to the home, in the 900 block of Fremont, at 4:34 p.m. Tuesday after a 911 hangup call to check on the well-being of the occupants.

Officers found blood on the back door, two female shooting victims on the kitchen floor and an uninjured 15-year-old boy. One of the victims said she was the boy's mother, and he had shot the two. She also said the other woman was the boy's grandmother.

Names are not being released.

Police said the teenager shot the two women after an argument in the grandmother's house, the Associated Press reported. The boy's mother was able to call 911 before her son ripped the phone out of the wall, Bay City Police Deputy Chief Gary Janiskee said.

Officers state in a press release that the grandmother appeared to be dead at the scene. The boy's mother was taken to Bay Regional Medical Center with injuries that are thought not to be life-threatening.

The boy was arrested and taken to the police department. Officers found the weapon believed to have been used in the shooting while searching the house.

Crime scene technicians from the Michigan State Police Bridgeport Crime Lab are working with Bay City Police in the investigation.